Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-07
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California during the past seven years.
The current decade will leave upon
our history marks SO deep and broad,
and in such brilliant colors withal,
that this will for all coming time be
looked up as the most notable period in
our annals. In Los Angeles county
alone there have been founded since
1880 as many as four score new
towns, and this count is made only
along the lines of the railroad. OF
course, some of these settlements are
still in embryo rather than full-fedged
communities. But while the last state
ment is true, it is as fixed a fact that
many of these new creations of our
wonderful enterprise are very impor-
tant places. At the beginning of the
decade Pasadena was sparsely set
IL ID spot, noted for its fine
or tuge and other orchards. To-
dav thee are 10000 souls in
the beautiful city of Pasadena. Its
stately churches, fine schools, man.
moth hotel, lines of railroad and of
street railroad, its banks, commercial
h buses, opera house, and thousand
other notable features, stamp it as q
city in very truth. Monrovia, which
was sheep-walk in 1880, is now a
place of 1900 inhabitants too,
and SO ratid is its growth that
Pasadena will need to abate no jot Of
it's progress for the next half decade
if she is to keep out of the way of her
younger sister. In all her exploits so
far Monrovia is as queenly as her
first born sister of the footbill towns.
Pomona was scarcely heard of at the
beginning of the period under re-
view. Il is to-day stately city
OF $500 people, as substantial
in its developments, as ornate in its
Improvements, as busy in ali its lines
OF industry as any similar town in
the land. So with dozens OF others
OF these new-hedged settlements of
the valley. While all the country
from Los Angeles to and including
Ban Bernardino, Cotton and River
side, have been making such rapid
strides in growth, the other
end of the County has
not been sitting still. Three
years ago freight train day went
down to Santa Ana. 1t had one de-
lapidated passenger car attached, and
this took half dozen passengers a
trip. Now two solid passenger trains
a day 60 to that part of the county.
Each hauls four fine coaches, and
every seat is filed with people.
Under the older regime the
train stopped at Downey City,
Norwalk and Anaheim before
reaching its destination. Both trains
now stop between the time OF leaving
the Commercial street depot in this
city and their arrival at Santa Ana
at no less than a round dozen places,
and it will ere long be increased to a
big bakers dozen. At each of the
larger places, as Downey City, Nor
walk and Anaheim, a small army OF
people leave the trains going south,
and take those coming north. Every
where marks of improvem ent
and development meet the eye. To
be sure, the growth has not been so
rapid, nor has the march of i'm
provement gone forward at such a
swinging pace as that set by Pasadena
or Monrovia. But down there what
has been left undone for the past
three or four years will be more than
redeemed in the next few. There is
a loud hum in the hive OF pro-
gress at all these points, new
swarms are going out from
the old nests, and by the end of a
couple more years no portion of the
county will be able to claim any pre-
cedence over the south end.
Badly informed people call this a
"boom," using the new slang in the
sense of an unhealthy, speculative,
feverish excitement. 1t is nothing OF |
the sort. Several hundreds of miles |
of new railroads have been constructed |
in this time; in the coming half |
decade as much more new track will |
be laid. So, also, the population of |
our own city has grown from 5000 to
over 10000. The county. which then
contained about 10000 souls, now
counts population OF 5000. The
,ity now has as many voters as she
lad total population in 1880. The sim
lie city OF Pasadena has many souls
s the entire county outside
his city had at the came date.
In increase of business in all lines of
rade, and healthy development of
ur agricultural and other indus
ries are the foundations on which all